Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Complexity Science Hub (CSH), an innovative Vienna-based research center established in 2015, just launched a rebranding initiative, highlighting a novel approach to research that focuses more on ...

When making sense of the massive amount of information packed into an ice core, scientists face a forensic challenge: how best to separate the useful information from the corrupt. Tools from ...

In searching for sense in the complexities of nature, science has often found success by identifying common aspects of diverse phenomena. When one principle explains how different things behave, ...

Many people—including world and national leaders—seem to think of the world in atomistic terms: like a clock, they can take a simplistic action to manipulate one component. But this attitude ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. --When Isaac Newton formulated the laws of motion during the late 17th century, he had to use the language of geometry to communicate the ideas of differential calculus to ...

In the 1980s, an inkling emerged among some scientists that very disparate phenomena might on some deep level be related. The weather, protein folding, computers, evolution, the stock market, the ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Like most neuroscientists my professional life has been focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—exploring experimental relationships between brain and mind activity, the so-called consciousness ...

The findings, which highlight a fundamental biological tradeoff, suggest that social complexity can arise when individuals ...